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...particular there is one recurring mystery...something that has plagued me thoughout my conscious life. No, it has nothing to do with the shape of the splotch on Gorbachev's head. My problem lies much, much deeper...
Since the early '80s, Rothenberg has been grappling with two problems: how to put her fragments together, and how to do it in terms of color. She has never been a "natural" colorist (black, white, duns and a range of silvery grays, punctuated with the occasional splotch of crimson or ultramarine blue, came easiest to this tonal painter), and quite often her efforts to introject color into her work looked like mere tints imposed on a monochrome structure...
...coming from, dude, it's like reality, man, I'm taking a totally intense understanding. Dude, we are members of a closely related, if not common, species. We can't deny it, dude, it's all so large, you know. Larger than us all, even larger than that big splotch on your head. Heh heh. A little joke there, dude. But seriously, why bother with the whole artificial death scene, man, I mean in the end it's all the same, right? I'm for just hanging loose, dude, like playing it fully casual--I say let's place...
Delighted Soviets are relishing the idea of having a leader who is not infirm, indeed one who is two decades younger than the leader of the U.S. Jokes about Gorbachev's relative youth abound. One has a worried Raisa asking Gorbachev why he has developed a red splotch on his face to match the birthmark on his forehead. Gorbachev supposedly replies, "It's those old geezers on the Politburo who keep pinching my cheek and saying, 'Nice going...
...chemical. Intensified searches pointed to more widespread Soviet use of NPPD, and in larger quantities than ever before. At one point, in fact, careless KGB operatives seem to have sprinkled it so heavily in the embassy that the chemical for once turned visible, leaving a telltale yellow splotch. Two weeks ago the Administration made a detailed report to President Reagan, who approved a formal protest to Moscow and a public statement. U.S. officials admit that two or more years of tests on animals will be needed to determine whether NPPD poses a serious threat to health. That displeased many Americans...